잇기

Korean

Etymology

Of native Korean origin. From 잇- (it-, “to join”) +‎ -기 (-gi, “-ing, -ment”).

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈi(ː)t̚k͈i]
  • Phonetic hangul: [읻(ː)끼]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?itgi
Revised Romanization (translit.)?isgi
McCune–Reischauer?itki
Yale Romanization?īski

Noun

잇기 • (itgi)

  1. verbal noun of 잇다 (itda, “to join”)
  2. Conventionally given as the gloss to the Classical Chinese sentence-final particle 也 (yě) in traditional character dictionaries.

Derived terms

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